Article Features

All feature articles have a basis in news, and Victor’s features deal with newsy developments in
the subjects that the author has specialist knowledge about – travel and lifestyle, nature and environment,
culture and archeology, as well as tourism development and environment – all issues that Victor understands
very well thanks to a combination of study and long experience working in these areas.

Recent archeological excavations have discovered that the ancient Garamantes kingdom in the
central Sahara Desert was much more powerful than previously thought – the author goes to the desert to find
out what the archeologists have unearthed.

Although bus-bound hordes of package tourists still overwhelm China’s famous tourist sights,
including national parks, the first offshoots of eco-tourism have sprouted up in China – the author reports
on China’s nascent ecotourism industry.

Exclusive upscale resorts are sprouting up all over the Andaman Coast of Thailand, all trying to
outdo one another in seclusion and luxury, as well as their respect for the environment, but the author finds
out that there is much more to be done in the area of environmental care.

Proposals by the European Union to reverse overfishing and save coastal communities from demise
in European waters have been dismissed as misguided and counterproductive by the very people who are supposed
to champion the EU’s cause: the artisanal fishermen and the environmental organisations. The author
investigates the fishermen’s ire.